单词 | to take tea with |
释义 | > as lemmasto take tea with b. to take tea with (slang): to have dealings with, associate with; esp. to deal with in a hostile manner, engage with, encounter. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > accompany or associate with [verb (transitive)] seeOE to bear (a person) company (also fellowship, etc.)c1225 mella1300 fellowshipa1382 companya1400 accompany1461 to keep company (with)1502 encompanya1513 to keep (a person) company1517 to take repast1517 assist1553 to take up with1570 rempare1581 to go along with1588 amate1590 bear1590 to fall in1593 consort1598 second1600 to walk (also travel) in the way with1611 comitate1632 associate1644 enhaunt1658 join1713 assort1823 sit1828 companionize1870 to take tea with1888 to knock about with1915 tote1977 fere- society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > carry on (a contest, fight, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > engage in contention with tangle1535 to make with ——1548 bucklea1605 to take on1866 to take tea with1888 to have on1939 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xxxvii ‘Maybe we'll take tay with the rest of 'em now’. They didn't know the man they were after, or they'd have just as soon have gone to ‘take tea’, as they called it, with a tiger. 1896 R. Kipling Lost Legion in Seven Seas 97 Take tea with the giddy Masai. 1905 Daily Chron. 2 June 3/3 In polite circles genealogies are tabooed, the slightest trace of hybridity barring ‘taking tea’, as the local phrase has it. < as lemmas |
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